Sentence examples for lighting strike from inspiring English sources

He named the company for a pine tree that, legend has it, survived a lighting strike on the campus of Dartmouth College, his alma mater, in 1887.

The system configuration is shown in Fig. 1: a wind turbine grounding system is buried and subjected to a transient current generated by the lighting strike at a certain point of blades or nacelle (the influence of the turbine tower is here neglected, since the body is in series with the considered current source).

A lighting strike ignited an oak tree surrounded by light brush in San Bernardino County earlier Monday afternoon, authorities said, but the flames failed to spread.

There have been old cars, busted heating systems, a fallen tree that smashed my van minutes after we all made a mad dash to the house, bats in the belfry and raccoons in the chimney, a lighting strike that corkscrewed down a larch tree shattering an old Adirondack recliner resting beneath it, and rain in the kitchen.

Tiled walls and floors, tufted leather upholstery and bare-bulb pendant lighting strike a compromise between old and new.

This could happen because of a ransomware attack, because someone decided to personally ruin your life, or just because of a literal lighting strike.

Lighting strikes twice: The comments submitted in response to the recent post about lighting reveal sharp differences of opinion about how important lighting is – and about what constitutes good lighting.

Similarly, recent experiments in mood lighting struck testers as being too nightclub-like.

Lighting strikes are the number 1 cause of death on Half Dome.

Do not get close to windows or any opened areas during a thunderstorm because you would increase the chance of lighting striking you.

Power stations can be designed to ride through a few lighting strikes, but it's quite probable these wind farms suffered multiple strikes.